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non-competitive environments. We apply our tests to two datasets: the sample of Ohio milk auctions studied in Porter and …
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rates during the COVID-19 pandemic via a linkage of 2017 voter registration in Ohio and Florida to mortality data from 2018 …
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We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in North Carolina and Ohio …
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African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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also use the IPUMS to study trends in race differences in the incidence of mortgages, and in the value of owner …
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We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...
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-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
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In this paper we explore income and race differences in nine measures of the health of children aged 6 through 11. We … show that when health measures from mid-childhood are the subject of analysis, both income and race differences are much … favor the white or high-income children. With respect to differences by race, whether or not they are adjusted for …
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accurate the measures of prices used to deflate nominal output so as to win (or at least not lose) the race for economic …
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